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Governing Risk

Care and Control in Contemporary Social Work

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  • © 2015

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Authors:
  1. Mark Hardy

    1. University of York, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction

    • Mark Hardy
    Pages 1-7

  3. Enduring Debates in Social Work

    • Mark Hardy
    Pages 8-33

  4. Accounting for the Rise of Risk

    • Mark Hardy
    Pages 34-51

  5. Mental Health Social Work — A Case in Point

    • Mark Hardy
    Pages 52-84

  6. The Probation Service — Pragmatism in Practice?

    • Mark Hardy
    Pages 85-123

  7. ‘An Analytics of Social Work’

    • Mark Hardy
    Pages 124-143

  8. A Technical Identity?

    • Mark Hardy
    Pages 144-163

  9. Risk, Uncertainty and Blame in Contemporary Practice

    • Mark Hardy
    Pages 164-181

  10. Conclusion — Doing Justice to Social Work

    • Mark Hardy
    Pages 182-197

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 198-221
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About this book

Drawing on Foucault's later work on governmentality, this book traces the effects of 'the rise of risk' on contemporary social work practice. Focusing on two 'domains' of practice – mental health social work and probation work – it analyses the ways in which risk thinking has affected social work's aims and objectives, methods and approaches.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of York, UK

    Mark Hardy

About the author

Mark Hardy is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of York, UK.

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